The Common Council hereby finds that crimes are committed from
time to time within the City of Rensselaer by parolees released from
penal institutions and reformatories located within and without the
State of New York; that the presence of such persons within the City
of Rensselaer is discovered usually after the commission of crimes;
that for the better maintenance of order, enforcement of the laws,
prevention of crime and preservation and care of the safety, health,
comfort, property and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City
of Rensselaer, the Chief of Police should be made aware of the presence
of such persons within the City of Rensselaer. It is hereby found
and declared, therefore, as a matter of legislative determination,
that all parolees from penal institutions and reformatories located
within and without the State of New York and who are now within the
City of Rensselaer and those hereafter coming within the City of Rensselaer
should immediately report to the Chief of Police for identification
and registration. This chapter is declared to be a measure designed
to prevent crime, to protect and preserve good order, enforce the
laws, protect and preserve and care for the safety, health and comfort
and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Rensselaer and
visitors thereto.

All parolees released from any penal institution or reformatory
located within or without the State of New York and who are now within
the City of Rensselaer, and such as shall hereafter come within the
City of Rensselaer, shall immediately identify themselves to and shall
register with the Chief of Police of the City of Rensselaer and shall
give him such information as he shall require to enable him to identify
such person, including the name or names by which known, past and
future addresses, name of last penal institution or reformatory from
which paroled and the crime or crimes for which he was last confined
or committed.

The Chief of Police shall have the power and authority to communicate
with the proper authorities of each state and federal government to
obtain such information as he shall deem necessary in furtherance
of the purposes and declarations of this chapter.